Day 153
I think today’s post coincides with today’s temp … 153! Or so it seemed! We hit another record … so, what else is new … right?! So has everyone else on the planet! It did reach 116 heat index … pretty impressive for the midwest! And my house is currently 92. Nice.
Needless to say the dogs and I are lying around, again, like those limp watches in that Dali painting no matter how much I hose us all off. Disgusting. I even resorted to spending 2 hours in … WalMart … today to cool down! Pretty bad.
Tonight I went to the concert in the park with my dad … and about 40% of the crowd that is normally there on a Friday night. It was tolerable if you didn’t move … but that was hard as it was toe-tapping music!
And though I may be in love with Russell Stover … I certainly have a deep crush on Duke Ellington, the Gershwin brothers, Cole Porter and all the guys of the Big Band era. It was GREAT! Hot, but great. And the cicadas sang right along the whole time!
No fireflies tonight, though … I think they had taken off their jackets and were cooling off in some shady glen somewhere!
Yesterday I watched a herd of dragonflies (actually called a swarm but herd sounds more fun as they were practically thundering along like buffalo) descend on my parkway. There must have been some bugs that they had honed in on to feast on. It was an amazing sight with fifty or more of these mini helicopter flyers zipping in and around my old stump.
We have one more day of high temps and then let the cool down begin. The mid 80’s sounds fantastic! I have two rooms totally shut off to the house as they are just too hot. I brought down my toothpaste tonight and it, too, was hot. Kind of gross to brush your teeth with hot toothpaste!
In any case … the plumber comes early and already it’s too late … I’m hoping to be dreaming soon of dragonflies flitting around to the sounds of Swing.